Variety reports that screenwriter Ronald Harwood, who recently won an Oscar for his adaptation of The Pianist, has been signed by DreamWorks to adapt Thomas Hauser's novel Mark Twain Remembers for a film to star James Franco. Centering around a young Twain, who meets up with a slave boxer and his owner/promoter, the pic will be produced by Bonnie Curtis with Jonathan Schwartz, Jim Lampley and Stephen Ricci. No director is yet attached to the project.
- 6/18/2003
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